A friend sent an email from his Blackberry and someone hacked into it, inserted a few sentences, and it was delivered - altered - to the recipient with a copy (altered) back to his phone. It was a T-Mobile Blackberry account. Has anyone heard of this happening before? A computer security expert told me it is not that hard to do. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

This computer security expert that you so readily dismiss helped found two highly successful cell phone companies and retired with lots of extra change. As there is a personal safety issue involved here, I was hoping for an honest exchange of info and/or experience as I have been searching the web for two days and it's obvious from info readily available on the web that this is not only possible but happening.

"In order to hack an email from the sever they'd almost have to be monitoring it at the exact second it came in, modified it, sent it, then sent a different reply back...."

You're getting closer. Except for the last part. The reply back is automatic since it has already been altered.

But listen. I am not trying to convince anyone here. I am more concerned about my friend. The insertion was not inflammatory in the sense that noone outside of the sender and the receiver would read it and understand that it was a problem.

This computer security expert that you so readily dismiss helped found two highly successful cell phone companies and retired with lots of extra change. As there is a personal safety issue involved here, I was hoping for an honest exchange of info and/or experience as I have been searching the web for two days and it's obvious from info readily available on the web that this is not only possible but happening.

But that's ok. I will continue my research elsewhere.

Thanks and sorry to have bothered you.

And you got an answer from 5 different people who all said it's not possible.... Since the *expert* has safety issues (read: rolleyes) he can send you an email detailing how this is possible and you can post his email here... That way his *safety* (read again: rolleyes) is not compromised...

The security expert is not the one with the safety issues (you so easily mock) and he has nothing to gain or lose. He's just trying to help and figure out how it happened.

As for this comment: "Lay it out there. Prove us wrong."

I am not interested in proving you wrong. I only wanted to know if anyone else had ever experienced this. My focus is figuring out what happened and how. What I find astonishing is the level of denial happening in this forum. But that's for you to deal with not me.

I can tell one thing from reading this forum. You know a whole lot less than you think you do. Instead of trying to figure out IF this is possible, the focus is on telling me it is IMPOSSIBLE. But if it happened to you and it potentially put someone in jeopardy you cared about, you would not be so quick to go there. I hope this doesn't happen to any of you. But don't tell me it's impossible, because I know it isn't.